#ucp — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ucp, aggregated by home.social.
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Again #Indigenous nations are doing the heavy lifting for the country.
"The Criminal Code defines treason primarily as the use of force to overthrow the government or sharing with another state information that may be used for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada." https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-alberta-treason-review-9.7315676 -
The #Alberta #UCP are playing god with our #watersheds. "diverting flows from one basin to another can disrupt these balances and the overall health of the watershed. In the receiving river, inter-basin transfers can introduce pests, parasites, invasive species, and infectious diseases, while reduced flows in the donor river can negatively impact water quality and availability for downstream communities and aquatic habitat." https://www.albertawilderness.ca/news-release-government-of-alberta-amended-water-act-despite-public-feedback/
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So, apparently this Alberta referendum is turning into exactly the sort of travesty we’ve come to expect from Danielle Smith and her UCP MAGA puppet-club; apparently each referendum question (there are 10) has to be on its own sheet of paper so there’s like 45 million ballots to count, which has to be done within 48 hours. And of course Marlaina wants them all counted by hand, so Elections Alberta is now scrambling to try and find enough people to do the job. 😂😂😂
Elections Alberta seeks help from other provinces to run fall referendum
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It's called a 'sneer signal':
somebody in their leadership utters the indefensible, secretly the basest of the Base all touch the sides of their spiteful noses knowing that's precisely how they and their leaders really feel, then they all vehemently and publicly denounce the indefensible utterance; the vocal sneer-signaler is sidelined, for awhile.
(think 'spoonful of poop' mla Jenny Johnson)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-separatist-leader-speaks-out-after-supporter-accused-of-racist-comments/
#alberta
#traitors #ucp
#separatist
#TheAlbertaProsperityProject
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Sooo, #DanielleSmith’s #UCP don't care if #META #datacenters create blackouts in winter. Got it. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 #Cdnpoli #ABpoli #Ableg #Cdnsecurity
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Sooo, #DanielleSmith’s #UCP don't care if #META #datacenters create blackouts in winter. Got it. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 #Cdnpoli #ABpoli #Ableg #Cdnsecurity
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#ElectionsAlberta says it has received 25,000 applications for the 60,000 positions it will require to count up to 45 million complicated ballots, by hand, within 48 hours, as demanded by the #UCP. There's no hope of a fair count and both the referenda voting and count will be a gong show. Lineups will be long, and we need a strong showing of "yes to Canada, and #NoToTheNine." Request the mail in ballot (takes 30 seconds); make room for others; save your sanity.
#abpoli #referedrum
https://specialballot.elections.ab.ca/index/8400 -
Healthy #headwaters are essential public #infrastructure. The #easternslopes store, filter, and release the water that sustains our farms, rivers, and homes. But right now, short-sighted #UCP #abpoli decisions are causing permanent damage to the very systems that keep our water clean and reliable. Raise your voice! #SaveOurSlopes
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Of note:
Synapse Real Estate Corp. is proposing a one-gigawatt data centre project in Olds, Alta., which includes the construction of a 1.4-gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant and 600 diesel generators to provide 1.8 gigawatts of backup power. Once operational, the data centre would draw as much power as the city of Edmonton.
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Danielle Smith wants Canada to surrender
National Observer’s Max Fawcett brings us a renewed insight for how the UCP’s Danielle Smith has failed to reciprocate support given to Alberta by other provinces during a renewed trade dispute with the US. And, while some may consider this failure as a feature of a Federated government system, Fawcett rightly points out that the AB Separatists are clearly a very small minority. Worse, this small group has been given unusual access to the UCP, hijacked the privacy of Albertans with the theft of the Alberta Electors List, and has essentially acted in its own interest by meeting with US officials for handouts. None of this would be possible without assistance.
And, I agree that Premier Smith’s motivations, mixed as they are, probably include a scenario of what many can describe as betrayal.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/29/david-eby-alberta-separatism-treason
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Corb Lund seeks court review after rejection of anti-coal petition
Michael Ranger brings us the latest of Corb Lund’s Citizen Initiative.
Country musician Corb Lund and his advocacy group Water Not Coal have launched a legal challenge against Elections Alberta, asking the courts to review the decision to reject a citizen-led initiative aimed at banning new coal mining projects on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
The court application follows Elections Alberta’s early July ruling that the petition failed to meet the threshold required under the province’s Citizen Initiative Act, despite organizers submitting more than 207,000 signatures in support of the proposal.
Water Not Coal is arguing the decision was unfair and runs counter to the intent of the legislation designed to encourage public participation in democracy. The group alleges Elections Alberta applied overly strict standards when validating signatures, required voters to accurately recall details months after signing, and relied on a flawed statistical sampling process to determine whether enough signatures were valid.
While the Citizen Initiative Act is used to bring dangerous and unconstitutional petitions forward, like those in favour of Alberta Separation, the UCP arguably have conflicts of interest that can lead to “issue fixing” surrounding the Act due to how much power it holds over Elections Alberta. The UCP controls the selection for the very same offices that manage the Citizen Initiative Act, and other critical pieces of legislation intended to regulate the Politician. The UCP controls the resources available to Elections Alberta to investigate offences.
As noted by the CBC’s Michelle Bellefontaine, in “Alberta government ignores AG’s offer to stay on 2 more years, starts search for replacement”,
The motion to begin a search for an auditor general was passed by the five UCP MLAs who make up the majority on the standing committee on legislative offices that overseas the office of the auditor general, the chief electoral officer, the ombudsman and public interest commissioner, the ethics commissioner and the information and privacy commissioner.
Committee member Scott Cyr, who is the MLA for Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul, introduced the motion to set up an auditor general search committee near the end of a contentious meeting.
Cyr, and four of his UCP MLA colleagues — Nolan Dyck from Grande Prairie, Chelsae Petrovic from Livingstone-Macleod, Jackie Lovely from Camrose and Chantelle de Jonge from Chestermere-Strathmore — voted in favour of the motion.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/auditor-general-wylie-alberta-9.6965562
The UCP has also moved goal posts concerning Elections Alberta’s ability to investigate offences and the time limits. According to the Globe’s “A watchdog curtailed”, by Tom Cardoso and Carrie Tait:
Marc Mayrand, a retired public servant and Elections Canada’s chief electoral officer from 2007 to 2016, said the timelines established by the Alberta government are “not realistic.”
“I’ve never seen an investigation completed within a year of the commission of an offence,” he said. “It would be extremely difficult to imagine an acceptable rationale for such a short time period. Twelve months from the commission of an offence – it’s almost unimaginable to think that it can be done.”
The article also includes a table of other provinces and their time limits on Election offences, some of whom have no time limit.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
When Canadians recall that the UCP also tightly controls the funding to this very same Watchdog, there’s a real fear that foxes are in the henhouse.
Global’s Jack Farrell and Lisa Johnson, in “Province denies Elections Alberta’s request for $13.5 million to handle recall petitions”, explored the issue of Elections Alberta requesting additional funding to properly carry out recall petitions and Citizen Initiatives. The UCP issued a chilling reminder to Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, who controls the purse strings, and who he answers to. I would suggest this does raise questions about the Chief Electoral Officer’s independence, and why would such an Officer not consider resigning from the appearance of political interference.
“To say this is straining our organization from both a staffing and space perspective is an understatement,” said McClure.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11511194/elections-albertas-recall-petition-funding/
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Danielle Smith, in The Estranger.
Alberta remains under siege, presenting an unprecedented threat to Canada, and an attack pattern roadmap for countries around the world.
Alberta’s United Conservative Party introduced a Citizen Initiative Act in 2021, which claims to enable regular citizens to propose legislative and policy changes, and referendum questions. While this may appear to be a laudable motivation, the decades of Western democracy has revealed a severe flaw: the politician.
Specifically, Politicians who have been incentivized to seek re-election at the expense of all else - including the voters who they presumably should focus on. Politicians have increasingly become self-interested players with no meaningful regulation, and this self-interest allows them to focus entirely on changing the goal posts for their re-election. In the event of controversy or scandal, politicians have been expected to offer their resignations - immediately limiting any fallout damage from conflicts of interest. Such an action however, is a “convention”, or an expectation. There’s nothing that actually requires the Politician to take this action.
Danielle Smith
Such an event indeed unfolded before Canadians in the form of CorruptCare. Then AHS CEO, Athana Metzelopoulous, a whistleblower, turned the public spotlight to a cluster of healthcare related procurement contracts at a time when there was a brief shortage of children’s pain medication across Canada in and around 2021. During this time, the allegations suggest that political interference, from those in Premier Smith’s orbit, directed the AHS procurement process in favour of a local businessman, Sam Mraiche.
Such allegations were explosive, and normally should be career ending events. But Premier Danielle Smith has thrown the game, refusing to follow convention, and instead engaging in a campaign of lawfare against Canadians. She insists on the barest minimums in terms of accountability to run her term, and to impose a new set of policies that the UCP simply did not run an election for.
CorruptCare expanded to further revelations from the Melewka Homes litigation that Mraiche engaged in profiteering on building projects that are intended to one day become recovery centres. Recovery centres, by the way, that are part of the UCP’s Compassionate Intervention Act plans. I generally refer to these plans as Residential Schools 2.0.
In the wake of CorruptCare, the Auditor General, then Doug Wylie, was appointed in 2018 for an 8 year term. The UCP declined to extend Mr Wylie’s term to permit him to conclude his investigation into the CorruptCare cluster of contracts. But, perhaps alarmingly, the UCP were highlighted to essentially control all facets of any accountability that they could be subject to.
As noted by the CBC’s Michelle Bellefontaine, in “Alberta government ignores AG’s offer to stay on 2 more years, starts search for replacement”,
The motion to begin a search for an auditor general was passed by the five UCP MLAs who make up the majority on the standing committee on legislative offices that overseas the office of the auditor general, the chief electoral officer, the ombudsman and public interest commissioner, the ethics commissioner and the information and privacy commissioner.
Committee member Scott Cyr, who is the MLA for Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul, introduced the motion to set up an auditor general search committee near the end of a contentious meeting.
Cyr, and four of his UCP MLA colleagues — Nolan Dyck from Grande Prairie, Chelsae Petrovic from Livingstone-Macleod, Jackie Lovely from Camrose and Chantelle de Jonge from Chestermere-Strathmore — voted in favour of the motion.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/auditor-general-wylie-alberta-9.6965562
Alberta’s main offices to hold the Politician accountable are essentially all disarmed on their face, leaving the administration of any kind of public justice in a state of disrepute. With an active RCMP investigation, a disrupted Auditor General investigation, a half-measured investigation carried out by the Wyant Investigation, and dubious intimidation tactics upon a journalist and other involved parties, one may imagine that the Justice Minister may have some concern.
But, as it turns out, Justice Minister Amery may have some conflicts of his own. By closing ranks, and refusing to follow the political convention of resigning in the face of scandal, the UCP has elevated the Politician to become more powerful than anyone in Canadian society ever intended.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11069826/rcmp-probe-alberta-health-services-allegations/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-danielle-smith-ucp-government-rcmp-searches-ahs/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/athana-mentzelopoulos-ahs-lawsuit-9.7166738
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
Indeed, there are indirect indications the UCP acknowledge the conflict of interest is real. From Global News’ Phil Heidenreich, “Well-known conservative operative quits Alberta’s UCP, says party is ‘allergic to transparency’”,
“Let me be clear: this is no longer the party I helped build.”
Davies had also been a key player in the Wildrose Party before its members merged with members of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta (PC) to form the UCP. He also spent time as co-campaign manager for Jeff Callaway in the 2017 UCP leadership race.
“(The party) is addicted to power and allergic to transparency,” Davies wrote on Thursday. “We are not witnessing leadership — we are witnessing damage control.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11149912/alberta-ucp-letter-cameron-davies/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/marshall-smith-defamation-lawsuit-ahs-globe-1.7537552
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/16/UCP-Tried-Kill-Health-Story/
Danielle Smith - The Estranger
The Edmonton Journal’s Rob Breakenridge, who rightly raises the alarm that Premier Smith’s UCP, heavily conflicted with the above career ending scandals, has mothered and steered a petition for Alberta separation.
It would be quite a lurch for Danielle Smith to go from celebrating a major win-win for Alberta and Canada to then unleashing a referendum on breaking up the country.
It would be problematic, too, given the necessary consultations with First Nations if this new pipeline project is to proceed. Disregarding a court ruling aimed at protecting treaty rights could complicate those efforts, to say the least.
The premier previously said she did not intend to be the one to put separation on the ballot, since, as she put it, “My position is we should remain in Canada. That’s the position of our government.” And, in fairness, her pursuit of an energy agreement with Ottawa has helped to bolster that position.
Smith hasn’t necessarily changed her mind here, but she seems less unequivocal in the face of last week’s court ruling, which halts the separatist petition effort.
If the petition can’t be the spark for a referendum, it’s clear the separatists see the premier as their backup plan. And, so far, she’s not closing the door on that option.
That’s the wrong response. Whatever pressure Smith is facing to ensure a referendum proceeds, and whatever one thinks of this court ruling, she should not be the one to call such a vote. It undermines what she’s trying to accomplish, and she arguably lacks a mandate.
Smith, facing a scandal of enormous public and personal consequence in CorruptCare, has become the family estranger. She’s gone to the Canadian family, instigated emotional abuse, personality clashes, neglect, trauma, and selectively favours some over others.
A Warning For the West
The separatist petition is a farce, babied and nurtured every step of the way by the UCP. Now, the Europeans express concern that the US may interfere with their own elections. As Alberta endures its siege, let the world bear witness to how the US can indeed interfere with its allies.
https://www.stl.news/experts-caution-that-alberta-is-highly-susceptible-to-foreign-interference/
https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/29/eu-now-fears-us-interference-in-european-elections/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alberta-separatism-9.7066320
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“The 2025 Renewables in Review report says that Alberta's once-thriving renewable energy landscape, propelled by the province’s open electricity market, saw a catastrophic decline in investment since a seven-month moratorium on clean energy projects in 2023.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-renewable-energy-9.7286101 #Alberta #renewables #UCP
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"As #Project2025 has done in the US, the #FreeAlbertaStrategy has begun to fundamentally alter #Alberta politics and society. It provides a clear window into the moves Premier Smith’s #UCP will make in destabilizing relations with the rest of #Canada and setting Alberta on a path to #separation.... a preview of where this is all headed, they need only keep an eye on our neighbours to the south." https://thewalrus.ca/the-blueprint-behind-danielle-smiths-plan-to-break-up-with-canada/
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"Typical concerns raised by residents wherever #AI #datacentres have been proposed include their impact on local #electricity rates, #water use, relentless noise at every hour of the day and night, hidden government subsidies, lack of environmental assessments, their impact on taxes, and the impact on the local economy." https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/danielle-smith-announces-new-power-plant-for-ai-data-centre/
#abpoli #UCP #CorporateCorruption #grifters #ClimateCriminals
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"the #datacentre boom is zeroing in on one province: #Alberta. The prairie province accounts for 93 per cent of all planned data centre capacity in #Canada, in large part because of its cheap natural gas-powered electricity. Plus, Alberta’s #UCP government has been courting the AI industry, offering corporate tax incentives to data centre builders and exempting them from otherwise routine #environmental impact assessments." https://breachmedia.ca/inside-the-rising-country-wide-movement-against-ai-data-centres/
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More orange #airquality - that's what the #CarneyCons, the #UCP Smith #libertarians, and #BigOil folks what for us. https://cabinradio.ca/299387/news/yellowknife/orange-air-quality-warning-issued-for-yellowknife/
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“We are simultaneously shocked by this outcome, yet, unfortunately, not surprised, given the continual government rule changes and roadblocks we have faced throughout this campaign,” he said.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11951760/anti-coal-mining-petition-fails-alberta-eastern-slopes/
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Grand Chief #TrevorMercredi responds to Smith and her comments on enforcing the law when it comes to #FirstNationsTreaty asserting their rights: "When we look at instances of civil disobedience we should look at the #UCP party themselves. They're very lawless & Passing laws to protect themselves 🇨🇦
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@NMBA The FTA was such a good thing for Canada that, decades later, not just the Liberals but even the NDP desperately wish to preserve it. Conservatives are right to feel proud of advancing Canadian prosperity by lowering and eliminating tariffs.
It is true that conservatives who voted for the #UCP empowered the Albertan separatist movement. I suppose a partial defence would be that the UCP electoral campaign didn't promise a referendum on separation or other such moves.
